by Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY

by Tom Vanden Brook, USA TODAY

WASHINGTON - The top U.S. and Russian military officers discussed sharing data to help defeat terror threats at the Winter Olympic Games next month in Sochi, according to a spokesman for Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Dempsey met Tuesday in Brussels with Gen. Valeriy Gerasimov, his counterpart in the Russian military. Dempsey committed to having U.S. experts work with Russia's to ensure that any electronic equipment the U.S. military offered could be used safely and effectively with Russian gear, said Air Force Col. Ed Thomas, Dempsey's spokesman.

No specific type of U.S. equipment was offered, Thomas said.

The New York Times reported Tuesday that the equipment included sophisticated jamming equipment that the Pentagon had developed in its fight against improvised explosive devices (IEDs).

The Joint IED Defeat Organization has spent more than $10 billion on hundreds of pieces of equipment since the height of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan on equipment that can detect homemade bombs or jam signals that detonate them. Its efforts to disrupt those signals - at a cost of $4.5 billion - essentially rendered null the threat of radio-controlled IEDs in Iraq.

Another $40 billion was spent on armored vehicles to protect U.S. troops from roadside bombs.

Gerasimov asked for technical data on U.S. equipment, Thomas said. Dempsey did not commit to releasing the information but said the request would be looked upon favorably, according to Thomas.